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From: ose12@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl (ose cursus )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Amiga 2000 and XT Bridgeboard Use
Message-ID: <783@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 23 Jan 90 12:46:45 GMT
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Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Sorry for the late reply (just back from holiday).

jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams) writes:

>a)  Can it access the 3.5 drives in IBM 720k mode?
 Only if the drive is external! Internal drives can NOT be
 accessed from bridgeboard side as standard IBM drives! 
 (But I think this question was already answered).

>c)  Any comments from experience to warn/advise me about the system?

4,77 MHz is really slow. There is an alternative bridgeboard (X-Pert
 Turbo-PC bridgeboard), which uses a NEC V20 processor (minor incompa-
 tibilities) with 8 MHz and is about 80 % faster than the normal A2088.
 A small problem of this board is that the clock runs faster too,
 so you need a program (XTIME, delivered with the package) to correct 
 the timing. This board is about 100$ more expensive than the A2088.
Apart from that, the screen emulation by the Amiga (MDA and CGA) is
extremely slow. You could buy a graphics card, but this will cost you
an extra (multisync)-monitor if you still want to use the PC and 
Amiga-side at the same time (no more Amiga-multitasking from the 
PC-side).
 
             Comments and questions are welcome,
                              Freddy Aries
                              University of Nijmegen (KUN)
                              The Netherlands.